New state-of-the-art facility in Orlando is projected to grow more than 5 million heads of lettuce annually.

List of established and emerging players shows escalating momentum in unique, controlled environment growing sector.

In the wake of the romaine lettuce recall, Square Roots, a Brooklyn, NY-based vertical farm with famous co-founders, has launched new labeling allowing consumers to access their food’s full backstory with a simple scan.

Cincinnati-based 80 Acres Farms plans to build a large, fully automated indoor farm in Hamilton, OH, which will produce specialty greens to supply local independent retailers including Jungle Jim’s International Market and Dorothy Lane Markets, and national chain locations for Whole Foods and U.S. Foods.

Big money and sexy technology may be hallmarks of this rapidly growing industry, but it still has some lessons to learn before it can feed the world.

The University of the District of Columbia is the nation’s only urban land-grant university, so it was a […]